228 MODERN FOREST ECONOMY. 



That is to say, the revenue had increased 56 per cent., 

 while the charges had only increased 8 per cent. 



' In South Australia a serious commencement has been 

 made in the right direction also. By an Act passed in 1873, 

 the sum of 2 per acre is paid to land owners, in certain 

 districts of the colony, to form plantations of trees. In 

 1875, a Forest Board was constituted, as certain districts 

 of the colony were formally defined as forest reserves. In 

 1878 a Forest Act was passed, and a conservator of forests 

 (Mr Brown) was appointed. Last year about a quarter of 

 a million trees were planted out, and the forest revenue 

 amounted to 6,517 of which 1,380 was for timber 

 sold against am expenditure of 6,200. 



' If, then, so much has been done by the Indian and 

 Colonial Governments to secure the future of their forests, 

 can nothing be accomplished at the headquarters of the 

 Empire ? This is the question now before us, and I trust 

 that it may be answered by instituting a course of instruc- 

 tion which may eventually develope into a forest school 

 for Great Britain/ 



THE END. 



